Ludwig Upholsterer

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Ludwig Polsterer (born March 31, 1927 in Vienna , † April 15, 1979 in Abano Terme in Italy ) was an Austrian newspaper editor.

Ludwig Polsterer was born into a middle-class family. His father Ernst Polsterer owned several mills. He founded the film company Cosmopol at a young age , but entered the newspaper business at the age of 27.

Through contacts with the then director of the theater in der Josefstadt , Ernst Hauessermann , he succeeded in 1954 in taking over the newspaper Kurier from the US occupation forces and in winning Hans Dichand as editor-in-chief. He shared 50% of the shares in the newspaper with a consortium around the ÖVP- related lawyer Alfred Maleta .

In 1958 he paid off his business partners and became the sole owner of the newspaper, only the ÖVP Federal Councilor Leopold Helbich remained involved as a silent partner. Polsterer concluded a ten-year contract with the People's Party, in which the courier had to orientate himself on the line of the ÖVP on fundamental issues.

During the so-called Vienna Newspaper War in 1958, Polsterer again received help from the ÖVP. He was in a dispute with Fritz Molden , the editor of the newspaper Die Presse . With funds raised by the ÖVP state party leader Fritz Polcar , he took over the previous competitor, Bild-Telegraf , after Molden had first filed for bankruptcy against him and then issued the clone Bildtelegram . Polsterer's picture telegraph was discontinued that same year.

Polsterer sold the courier on July 3, 1972 and then withdrew from the newspaper business.

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SURNAME Upholsterer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian newspaper editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1979
Place of death Abano Terme